File-box



(.NO Model.)

' 2 Sheets-Shea; 1. E. E. BAKER.

FILE BOX.

No. 37 082. Patented Feb. 14, 1888. 8

( No Model. 2 Sheets- -Shet 2.

E. E. BAKER.

.FILE BOX. 1

Patented Feb.- 14, 1888.

ma/zW UNITED STATES EDWARD E. BAKER, OF MORGANTOWN, WESTVIRGINIA,ASSIGNOR TO THE PATENT GLOBE COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FlLE-BOX..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,062 dated February14, 1888.

pplication filed July 5, 1887. Serial No. 243,434. (No model.) 7

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. BAKER, of Morgantown, Monongalia county,West Virginia, have invented a new and useful File- Box for Documents,of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of file boxes orreceptacles illustrated in my patent, N 0. 339,254, of April 6, 1886, towhich reference maybe made for more explicit explanation of detailsapplicable to my present improvement.

In my present improvement the various supporting and other functions ofthe follower are obtained by forming it of a metal plate which (at adistance from its lower edge exceeding the height of the guide-rails andthe same distance apart) has two guide eyes or orifices in a part of it,which have such obliquity to the main portion of such follower-plate as,in the closed condition of the device, to coact with the elasticity ofthe contents to securely clamp the same. The same orifices, on theunclamping of the follower, permit it to be first slid freely rearwardalong the guiding and supporting rails, and then, on the follower beingpressed backward, to cause itto bind upon said rails in the reversedirection to that employed for clamping, so as to hold the contents in aconvenient sloping position for examination of their titles.

In the preferred form of my present improvement the box proper is formedout of a single piece of sheet metal.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of one ofmy improved fileboxes in its open condition. Figs. II and III are sideelevations of the same in the open and closed conditions,respectively.Figs. IV and V are respectively a front View and a vertical section of.a portion of my follower in theclosed condition. Figs. VI and VII arevertical sections of the same portion in the freesliding and therearwardly-locked conditions,

respectively. Fig. VIII represents the sheetmetal blank out of which thepreferred formof my box proper is constructed. Fig. IX represents amodification of my improvement in which the material of the box properis wood. I

In the preferred form of. my improvement a piece, mainly of rectangularcontour, is so stamped out of sheet metal and bent' rectangularly at orabout its mid-length as to constitute-the base 1, with its two erectsideflanges or curbs, 2, and the front, 3, with its two rearwardly-extendingflanges, 4, of my file receptacle or box proper. Firmly attached'to andserving to brace together the parts 1 and 3, as well as to support andguide the follower and confine the contents, are the two guide-railsfi.Before their said attachment to the box proper the said guide-rails areinserted within orificesfi in the rear obliquely-bent portion, 7, ofthemetallic plate 8 that constitutes my file clamping and supportingfollower 6 7 8. The relations of the said guide-rails and the saidorifices are such that the lower edge of the follower is always held outof contact with the base 1, and the obliquity'and dimensions'of the saidorifices are such as to cause the said follower to be self-lockingforward inthe posit-ion shown in Figs. III, IV, and V, to becapable ofbeing slid easily along the horizontal portion of said rails whensuspended freely, as in Fig. VI, an d to be self-lockingrearward when inthe position represented in Figs. I, II, and VII. The said guide-railsare preferably constructed out of stout wire, and have their horizontalportions 9 connected with their vertical portions 10 by oblique portions11, which, when the follower is pushed 7 clear back to the extreme openposition, constitute an additional support to the same.

The above-described preferred form of my improvement may be varied insome of it's details. For example, the box proper, instead of beingcomposed of sheet metal, may be constructed of two wooden boardssuitably joined together, as shown in Fig. IX.

I claim as new and of my invention- 1.' In a file receptacle or holder,the combination, with the box proper, 1 3, and with the guiding andsupporting rails 5, of the followerplate 8, having the orifices 6 in theobliquelybent portions 7, substantially as and for the Gin theobliquely-bent'portions 7, as set forth.

purposes set forth. In testimony of which invention I hereunto 2. As anew article of manufacture, the file set my hand.- box consisting of thecombination of the box EDWARD E. BAKER. 5 proper, 1 2 3 4, formed of asingle piece of Attest:

sheet metal, the guiding and supporting rails GEORGE O. BAKER,

5, and the follower-plate 8,rhaving the orifices R. L. BESKSHIRE.

